<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: center; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">NSDL WHITEBOARD REPORT</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Find Whiteboard Report news and information on the Web </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">here</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">. Back issues are available at</font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue--Archive.php"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue--Archive.php</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">.</font></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Issue 143, Jan. 23, 2009</font></i></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">N E W S</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">“We Will Restore Science to its Rightful Place… Transform Schools, Colleges and Universities”</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">On January 11, 2009 the National Science Board (NSB) issued “National Science Board STEM Education Recommendations for the President-Elect Obama Administration,” and sent them to Obama’s Transition Team. President Obama’s inaugural address reflected not only the concerns of the NSB, but included those of the entire nation.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_00"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_00</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://nsf.gov/nsb/publications/2009/01_10_stem_rec_obama.pdf"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://nsf.gov/nsb/publications/2009/01_10_stem_rec_obama.pdf</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">WGBH Teachers’ Domain On iTunes</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Teachers' Domain has added new life science, earth and space science, physical science, and engineering tracks as free downloads. Resources available for download include videos and educator guides with discussion.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article:</font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_01"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_01</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/wgbh.org"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/wgbh.org</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Foreign Language Versions of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Now Available</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">A visit to the January 2009 issue of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears features a new "Change Language" option allowing users to choose to read the magazine in languages including French, Spanish, German and others.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_02"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_02</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">NSF Science Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) Workshop</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">While students were busy during exam week in December, a three-day workshop At Washington & Lee University on computational science education and interactive computing resources from NSDL enabled about a dozen undergraduate math and science faculty to explore new modes of teaching and learning. During this same period, Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) and NSDL were featured resources along with the new High Performance Computing University HPCU) portal, at the e-Science Conference in Indianapolis. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_03"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_0</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">3</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://cserd.nsdl.org/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://cserd.nsdl.org</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">One-stop Engineering Education News Service</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">The Engineering Pathway (EP) has launched an Engineering and Computing Education news service--a continuous feed of user-submitted items, featured on the EP homepage, parsed by discipline and displayed on EP disciplinary community pages. Learn more about personalized news and other services offered by the Engineering Pathway.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_04"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_04</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/util/news_event/news_event_list.jhtml"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/util/news_event/news_event_list.jhtml</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">E V E N T S</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Media Literacy in the 21st Century</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">On Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm ET NSDL/NSTA Web Seminars will show participants how to access classroom-ready resources from public television. This interactive presentation from WGBH's Teachers' Domain will show educators of grades 5-12 how to integrate media literacy into earth and space science curriculum while introducing free media resources from Teachers' Domain. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_15"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_15</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/SeminarRegistration.aspx"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/SeminarRegistration.aspx</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">NSDL at AAAS, Feb 13-15, Chicago</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Representatives from NSDL Pathways and Projects will feature resources and address current trends and best practices related to teacher professional development and undergraduate student preparation during workshop sessions at the AAAS Annual Meeting.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_16"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_16</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://www.aaas.org/meetings/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://www.aaas.org/meetings/</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">USA TODAY Education and NASA Host STEM Career Exploration Webinars</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Demonstrations of USA Today's career exploration web site, developed in collaboration with NASA, will be held online February 5, 9, and 13. Please RSVP if interested in participating.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_17"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_1</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">7</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/educate/homesplash.htm"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://www.usatoday.com/educate/homesplash.htm</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, Sun Microsystems and SPARC Present All About Repositories Webinar Series</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Beginning on February 18 DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, Sun Microsystems and SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) will offer a free About Repositories Webinar Series to provide professional learning opportunities for repository managers, developers, curators and decision makers. The series will be web cast and will also be made available through DSpace, Fedora, Sun and SPARC web sites.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_18"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_18</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2009/01/20/dspace-foundation-fedora-commons-sun-microsystems-and-sparc-present-all-about-repositories-webinar-series/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2009/01/20/dspace-foundation-fedora-commons-sun-microsystems-and-sparc-present-all-about-repositories-webinar-series/</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">B O O K M A R K S</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">NSF NSDL (National STEM Education Distributed Learning) Solicitation</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">The NSDL program aims to establish a national network of learning environments and resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels. Projects that explore specific topics that have immediate applicability to collections, services, and other aspects of the development of the NSDL network, which were submitted as Targeted Research under previous solicitations, should now be submitted as small grants to the Services section of the program. The proposal deadline date is April 15, 2009.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_29"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_29</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related link: </font><a href="http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf0953"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf0953</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">1</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">2009 NSF/AAAS Visualization Challenge. You See it All</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">The 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge is co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Winning entries will be published in a special section of the February 19, 2010 issue of the journal Science and Science Online and on NSF's website. One winning entry will appear on the front cover of Science.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">For more information, see: <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/scivis">http://www.nsf.gov/news/scivis</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_210"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_210</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related link: </font><a href="http://www.crabtreecompany.com/y_creative/NSF/09105AAS_Call-for-Entries.htm"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://www.crabtreecompany.com/y_creative/NSF/09105AAS_Call-for-Entries.htm</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">"Classroom Information Needs," D-Lib Magazine</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Author Marcia Mardis, Assistant Professor, College of Information, Florida State University, reports on a search analysis from a digital library for educators on search string logs from 2004-2006 from Michigan Teacher Network in the January/February issue of Dlib Magazine. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_211"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_211</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://dlib.org/dlib/january09/mardis/01mardis.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://dlib.org/dlib/january09/mardis/01mardis.html</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">"Documenting the Value of Education"</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">In this blog post Chemistry Professor John W. Moore, University of Wisconsin, and Editor of the Journal of Chemical Education examines the strong arguments Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz offer in their book The Race between Education and Technology,and agrees "that changes in policies are needed if the American educational system is to catch up with technological change and again make major contributions to our economic future."</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_212"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_212</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/01/13/documenting-the-value-of-education-february-2009"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/01/13/documenting-the-value-of-education-february-2009</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">/</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">NEW: Shodor InterACTIONS Newsletter</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Shodor (<a href="http://www.shodor.org/">http://www.shodor.org/</a>) has launched a quarterly newsletter aimed at keeping a growing audience of students and teachers informed about the latest improvements and additions to Shodor's computational science programs and activities. The newsletter is available as a downloadable PDF file and via email. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_213"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_213</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://nsdl.org/about/?pager=pathways&subpager=CSERD"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://nsdl.org/about/?pager=pathways&subpager=CSERD</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">MATHwire: Information for Mathematics Users</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">MATHwire, is a monthly newsletter published by Wolfram Research (<a href="http://www.wolfram.com/">http://www.wolfram.com/</a>) featuring information about Mathematica and other Wolfram Research products as well as related events from the Mathematica Learning Center.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_214"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_214</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2003-October/002382.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2003-October/002382.html</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">I N S P I R A T I O N </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears is This Month's Featured Collection in </font></b><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Dlib Magazine</font></i></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Jessica Fries-Gather, Editor of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears and Elementary Resource Specialist, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University provided readers of the January/February issue of D-Lib Magazine with an in-depth look at Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, an online professional development magazine for elementary teachers focused on preparing teachers to teach polar science concepts in an already congested curriculum.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Click here to view full article: </font><a href="http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_315"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current#id_315</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Related Link: </font><a href="http://dlib.org/dlib/january09/01featured-collection.htm"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://dlib.org/dlib/january09/01featured-collection.htm</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">l</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">-----------</font></i></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></i></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">NSDL Whiteboard Report</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, research news and notes from the National Science, Technology, Mathematics Education Digital Library (<a href="http://nsdl.org/">http://nsdl.org</a>) funded by the National Science Foundation, is published monthly and includes information from NSDL projects and programs nationwide. PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE. TO SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE visit </font><a href="http://nsdl.org/publications/index.php?pager=signup"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">http://nsdl.org/publications/index.php?pager=signup</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Whiteboard Report</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> is edited by Carol Minton Morris (<a href="mailto:clt6@cornell.edu">clt6@cornell.edu</a>/607-255-2702), NSDL Communications Director. Project leaders and participants from the NSDL Community are encouraged to send research news and notes of interest with links to additional information to the editor.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br>The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is the Nation's online library of resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">NSDL would like to thank the National Science Foundation for its generous support and advocacy of NSDL as the NSF digital library of science education. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. 0227648, 0227656, and 0227888. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div></div></body></html>